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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-19
NotiIce :!

All persons having claims AGAINST the es-
tate of Alfred Francis. deceased, will present
their accounts duly sttestea. and persons in-
6ehted 70 said estate viii make payment ct
once to the undersigned, who ere the Ezccu-
tors of ssid will
SUMTER FRANCIS,
FRANK FRANCIS.
JanIsay 18th, 1887 ct.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-19

Fast Line between CHARLESTON AND
COLUMBIA AND UppER South CAROLINA.
Cyndeascd Schedule.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-19

SELL Obs CURE will Immediately re-
lieve Group, Whooping Cough and Bon
cbjt;S
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-19

It sometimes requires considerable
discernment to tell, when won an's
forehead is bandaged, whether 1t is
the headache or the crimps.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-01-19

A number of North Carolina tobsc-
co, butter, and fruit venders, with
their canvass covered wagons, have
been ouartered in Afr. Lewis store
lot for several days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13

the Civil War. Vessels of that class
did not figure among the fighting
vessels of the British Navy at the
Spithead review. They were rele-
gated to the category of coast-guard
ships. and appeared in the coast
guard squadron. but even these YES.
sells are infinitely more powerfully
armored and armed than any vessel
which carries the stars and stripes as
a ship of war.
If we could always depend on iso-
lation from the other nations of the
world it might pay to submit to de-
fenseless harbors and taunts on q
navy which would be blown to
match-wood and old junk by mod.
ern iron-clad in a single hour, But
our very wealth is our danger, and
our citizens are trayersing every land
on earth-unprotected, because we
have no navy, not a single vessel, to
protect them. --BdHo. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
A Nation without a Navy.

The worst that has been said and
written about the new ironclad, At
lanta, does not appear to be half bad
enough. 1t is admitted by the exam
lining board that the ship is at pres
ent practically useless; that the ar
mament is so arranged as to make
the vessel worthless in action, and
that what is true of the Atlanta is also
true of the Boston and Chicago. The
meaning of this, reduced to the plain
est terms, is that the United States
after an expenditure of many mill
lions on these yessels-has not litter
ally single war ship that is fit to
uphold the honor of its flag.
The recent review of the British
Navy at Spithead may we'll make
Americans sigh for the vanished Clio.
ries of 1912. Then the United States
fairly held the seas against Great
Britain, and its cruisers worsted the
Britishers in several contests.
To-day the humiliating confession
is forced from us that in the British
feet at Spithead there were at least
six vessels-notablyIthe Collingwood.
the Invineible and the InfleXible-
any one of which could dispose of the
entire American navy in single
hour and not receive any more injury
in return than the Merrimac did
from the broodside of the Cumber-
land in the memorable contest in
Hampton Roads. The Collingwood
could lay New York, Philadelphia or
Baltimore in ashes within two hours,
without any greater risk than mail
clad giant would incur in crushing a
dolls house. That is exactly the
size of the matter. 1t is not pleas
ant theme for contemplation, but we
have got to deal with facts, not with
mere tariff statistics or political spec
ulations.
There are two great things TO be
learned before this country can hope
to boast of representative navy.
One is that we have so utterly ne
elected the Navy Department that
we are unable to construct modern
war ship at all; the other is that
even if the ships could be constructed
the Ordnance Department is unable
to arm them. Naval construction
has advanced wonderfully since the
days of the make-shift ironclads Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
Buckner's Majority.

LOUISVILLE KY, Aug. 5,-Suffi-
cient returns have been received from
the official vote as recorded in the
several counties today to indicate
that Buckner has been elected by
from 1000 to 5000 votes. The lead
ing Democratic papers here are claim
ing $4,000, but anything in excess of
the first named figures will undoubt-
eddy be clear steal. The Prohibi-
ton vote is showing up much better
than was at first believed, 50 that it
is more than probable that Buckner,
who has run behind his ticket in
nearly every county reported, has re-
ceived plurality and not a majority
of the votes cast. Blaine pOled in
the State for President $4,000 votes
and Bradley will exceed this by 7 900
or more, thus recording the largest
Republican vote ever cast in Ken
lucky. He has today received tele-
grams rendering him the instructed
vote of five Southern States in the
National Convention for the nomina-
ton for Vice President.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
Mr.. Blaine Abroad.
Graphic (Democratl.

New York Graphic (Democrat).
Mr.. Blaine's tour in England and
Scotland is furnishing this country,
and particularly those people given
to admire foreign nations, with
good deal of practical instruction. OF
Mr.. Blaine as an American abroad
we are proud, for we feel he can up-
hold, in his person, national char
acter, dignity. and independence.
Englishmen evidently think so too.
We need such men as Blaine
abroad. Men who respect them
selves, their country, their National
institutions, character, and customs,
and who can evidence such a feeling
without Offense or spread.eagleis
Many philosophic minds have re-
garded as an evidence of the weak
ness or colorlesness of our National
character the tendency of a residence
in the Old World to vitiate what is
characteristic and peculiar in Amer
lean visitors. There are grounds for
this conclusion. Americans have been
taken for Frenchmen in London, for
Englishmen in Paris, and for both
in Rome. Much of this is due to
our impressionable character, quick
to absorb what seems good in new
habits and ideas. Some OF it is due
to fear that old standards are neces-
sarily better than new ones, and that
there is something inherently raw
and uncouth in the genus Americans.
And some of it is due to fashion.
Mr.. Blaine has plenty of moral
backbone, but what makes his Amer
icanism valuable is its unconscious
ness. He could not be mistaken for
any one but an American if he tried.
His nationality is inherent. He Gre
ates in consequence an impression
that is unique and unmistakable.
Strong, clear, self-possessed, and
yirile,9the observer feels that under
a conventional dress is a character
that can be formed in one place only,
and that place the American Repub-
lie. His language, carriage, uncon-
scious movements betray it.
Mr.. Blaine will return reinvigora-
ted and ready for ware. His nominal
ton seems to be ono of the certain
ties of politics. And though we shall
have to retire him again to honorable
private life it will console him to re-
fleet that, as private individual, he
is generally regarded as an honor to
his country.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
Still Harnlng on the q. A. r.

The New York Times suggested
that the Grand Army men owe the
President an apology for the st,
Louis affair. Thus far they have not
found time to make 1t. Now we
have the Pittsburgh Dispatch urging
the G. A. r. to "relieve Itself of the
charge of partisan intolerance which
is based on the st. Louis affair"
The feeling Of veterans Of the war
for the Union Is in no way akin to
partisan intolerance. 1t is not as a
Democrat that the President is OBJ
jected 10. 1t Is not chiefly that he
has vetoed 30 many pensions but in
his vetoes he has INDUCED in Ian
guage as unnecessary as 1t was heart
less:
When he took up q private PEN
sion bill he seemed to be filed with
what he terms "ghoulish glee," and
he fatigued his ingenuity to over
whelm with sarcasm the old soldier
who had the hardihood to ask his
country to come TO his relief In the
hour Of his need. lie has been able
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13

crops. In some places fences have
been run through corn-feIds and the
starving cattle allowed TO feed upon
the leaves and stalks. When these
have been eaten the fences are ex-
tended until the entire fields have
been eaten clean. Added to the mis-
cries attending the great drouth IS
the constant fear of fires. Already
the land ehcompassed by the boun-
diaries has been blackened by wild
fires. In some towns the people are
often called out three or four times a
day to fight the flames. Destructive
fires have been raging for many days
in KenOsha, Racine and Walworth
counties in Wisconsin. Thousands
of acres have been swept by the flames
and the loss TO faamers in hay, grain,
fencing and building is very great.
Above Madison the boys are burning
fiercely and the pungent smoke
hangs over the country for miles
around. The Northern Illinois
fires are so numerous that the farm
ers have plowed the ground about
their buildings in order to check the
spread of the flames.
Should the drouth remain un.
broken much longer incalculable ruin
will be wrought by the fires which
spring up in unexpected places and
in the most mysterious manner. Ir
some parts of the district the droutl
is so terrible that butternuts and wal
nuts have fallen from the trees. Pc
tstoes, when taken from their bed
of ashes, look like crab-apples. They
are wrinkled and spongy and unti
for food. There is also great scar
city of milk. owing to the inability
of cows to find nutritious food.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
The Latest Boomerang.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., August s.
Grand Army men will be interested
in some facts which have come to
light concerning the resolutions sent
here by a National Veterans Asso-
citation, of Des Moines, Iowa, an
laid before the President by General
Rosecrans. Suspicion was aroused
that all was not going smoothly here
about the matter when the President
not only did not read the resolutions
handed him, but had the fact that he
did not read them go to the country.
1t now comes out that the resolutions
at Des Moiues were worked up by
one of General Blacks otficers-Pen-
sion Examiner Charles Whitehead, a
special protege of General Black,
These resolutions, it will be remem-
bered, were declared to be very fiat.
tering to General Black, but it is also
noteworthy that there was a success
] iul tNNCiilpl w llNNNhN tiO hSAh VI WV
resolutions from seeing the light.
A partially successful attempt was
made to suppress the fact that Pen
sion Examiner Whitehead was the
instigator of the so-called meet
ing, and of the resolutions denOunc-
ing the Grand Army.
! a letter from Des Moines says that
the Whitehead organization there is
a farce, that it only has twenty-five
members. Evidently the whole affail
in preparing these resolutions ano
arranging for their public presenta'
ton to the President was worked ul
by pension officials. The shape the
matter finally took has caused the
affair to act like a boomerang, the re
turn blow being delivered in Com
missioner Blacks Office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
The DrOuth in the Northwest.

CHICAGO, Aug. 8.-A local paper,
summing up the many reports re-
ceiyed by it of drouth, prairie fires,
ruined crops, &C., says this morning
There is an area of perhaps $4,000
square miles in the Northwest where
the dust lies heavily upon the earth.
The district is bounded by Madison
on the north, Bloomington on the
south, Lake Michigan on the east and
the Mississippi river on the west. 1t
is within the limits of these boundar-
les that vegetation has lost its nor
NAL color and the earth its moisture.
Day after day the sun sends its burn
ing rays upon the parched farms and
fields. Leaves are falling from the
trees, the grass in the meadows has
grown yellow and white and the
streams are as dry as powder horns.
1t has been nearly 10 weeks since
soaking rain fell in this district.
With not enough moisture in the
ground to feed thistle the condition
of corn and the tender grass in the
meadow may be imagined. In South
ern Wisconsin there are thousands of
ceres where corn will not yield peck
to the acre. The crop has been
scorched and almost totally destroy
ed. The leaves of the cereal are yell
low and brittle and droop almost to
the ground.
The loss of the corn crop, serious as
it is, will not impoverish the farm
ers. They have lived in the country
since the land was first titled, and
have for the most part laid by
enough money to carry them through
a winter. But there are other dan
gers to be confronted. Wells have
run dry. and in some towns water
famines are imminent. The drink
ing water at hand is often polluted
and filled with poisonous germs. Ty-
phoid fever is becoming more prevail
ent, and dysentery and other stomach
disturbances are so common in some
places as to be almost epidemic. I'M
less rain falls before many days the
suffering will be greatly augmented.
The intense heat has been a terrific
strain upon man, but its effect upon
cattle has been simply appalling,
The poor beasts have become so
emanciated as to be wholly unmark-
etable, The farmers in the dairy dis
tricts have in some instances been
compelled to feed and water their
cows from their own larder. In 9TH
err places forest trees have been felled
and dragged to the pastures and the
cattle turned loose to brouse upon
the leaves. Hundreds of cows are
killed and shipped to market for
mere pittance.
Farmers in this district have al
ready their cattle loose to feed on the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13

to jest at scars who never felt a
wound. He has rarely lost an an
opportunity to humiliate an appli-
cant.
This and the matter of the flags
have stirred up the G. A. r., and
that the hostile sentiment is not based
on partisan politics is witnessed by
the fact that the hostility is not con-
fined to Republicans.
If apologies are to be made, or il
anybody must be relieved of I'M
pleasant charges, the obligation GER
tainly does not rest on the veterans
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
- Wheeling LatelIigencer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13

ones, over their entire system. The
fact is that the iron bridges of to-day
could not Withstand a speed of so
miles per hour, for, with the present
speed of SO miles per hour, they are
required to slow down when crossing
them. The above is due to the ver-
tical, unbalanced parts of the loco
motive; various plans have been
suggested for a better distribution
and balancing of the reciprocating
masses. The Pneumatic System dis
penses with it altogether, and there
by solves the problem. and, too, at a
greatly reduced cost of motive power.
w. BARET LIE VAN.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13

The Baltimore American says !:
Congressman Louis e. McComas is
looming up as the Republican candi-
date for governor. His supporters
assert that he will sweep the Sixth
Congressional District like cyclone,
and make inroads in Democratic dis
tricts all over the State. His con-
gressional record, they declare, will
win him many votes from the ranks
of the opposition. His success in
having the Romiser Pension bill
passed over the Presidents veto, in
securing appropriations for the fast
mail service, the Baltimore harbor
and the new postoffice are points on
which his friends largely dwell. Mr..
Walter Brooks seems to have many
friends who want him to figure as
the head of the Republican state
ticket. j. Morrison Harris is the first
choice of many, and the second
choice of all Republicans who have
expressed on the governorship. Mr..
Robert B. Dixon is the candidate
from the Eastern Shore. Mr.. Euoch
Pratt is spoken of for the mayoralty,
as we'll as the goverEorship, and
Major Shaw is mentioned for the
former place. Ex-Congressman Urner
is the unanimous choice for attorney
general If the candidate for governor
Is not taken from the Sixth district.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SELECT SCHOOL.

A select family school for girls will be OPEN
ed at Briarbend Cottage in September. Num-
Der limited. A thorough and high cultiva-
ton of morals. mind and manners will be
aimed at Special attention given to back
ward pupils.
For further Information address
MISS E. B. SWAN.
Mt. Lake Park, Garrett county, Md.
References.-Rev. S. L. Bowman, d. d..
Dean of Theology in Du Pau University
Greencastle. Indiana, Mr.. Fl. Thane Miller,
President of Mt. Auburn, Young Ladies In,
Harrisburg, Pa. Sl3tf
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
The Prohibitionists were defeated
in Texas by a majority raging from
10000 to 100000.

When the Haymaker Rife Team
enters the lists for prize they enter
to VIM As they have carried off the
chief prizes from competitors and
have proven themselves good marks
men at six hundred yards we offer
the suggestion of steady practice at
the thousand yards range, and then a
nomination to representation at
Creedmore and Wimbleton.-Cum-
6erLdnd Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
Business Barometer.

NEW YORK, August 5, r.. G. Dun
& Co. in their weekly review of trade
say:
The collapse of the California
wheat ring teaches the old lesson
that everybody is stronger than any
body, and not even bonanza wealth
can. with impunity, defy the laws of
trade. Effects in Atlantic markets,
through changes in railroad and tel
egraphic operations, cannot yet be
anticipated even in San Francisco,
and the results are hidden, the Board
having suspended as well as the pool.
But the losses of six or seven mil
lions will fall heavily somewhere,
and the wheat held by the ring to be
100000 bushels in California, 1900,
000on sea and 100000 in Liverpool
hangs over the market, threatening
continued depression abroad and
here.
Stocks tumbled again, but have re-
covered little. On Saturday they
averaged S. per share lower than
July 2, and 50 lower than in January
land were trifle lower than a year
ago, but to-day the market was
stronger.
Railroads are pressed by the lowest
lake rates of the year-three cents fOl
wheat from Chicago to Butfalo-and
in June the canal moved to New
York 100000 against 100000 by
trunk lines.
Secretary Fairchild offers to prepay
interest with rebate. and to buy
bonds, if offered low enough, but the
men who have bonds are not those
who need money in pinch. Only
S4,500,000 interest payable bonds are
certain to be drawn unless the rebate
is hereafter abandoned, and whether
banks or permanent investors will
sell bonds at acceptable terms is un.
certain.
The reports from the interior points
are almost uniformly favorable, bul
money is already reported tight in
Kansas City, Atlanta and some other
points. The demand appears greater
than the supply at Cleveland and
Omaha, and collections are less salts
factory at several centres. Crops are
less favorably reported in Michigan
and Georgia. and harvesting in the
Northwest shows disappointing re-
suits according to st. Paul advices
but elsewhere accounts are excellent
At the East heavy shipments o.
money west, and large engagements
for the future attract attention. Bos.
ton has put $40, 100000 into new un.
dertakings and pledge S30,000,00(
more. A similar, though small drain
is felt at Philadelphia.
Recent exports are not large. the
shipments from New YORK for five
weeks being 7 per cent below those
of last year, with per cent increase
in imports. The heavy imports OF
iron in June-54, 667 tons of pig, Al, 1873
of scrap and 81, $50 of manufactured
cause less confident tone rails are
offered to delivery by some makers
at $3.50. Wool is also offered lower
by some holders, and the wooden
goods market shows no great actiy-
ity F.; print cloths are lower. but other
cottons are firmly held.
In brief, great speculations have
unpleasantly blocked the wheels of
trade in many branches, and absorb.
ed or locked up vast sums of money
which will be wanted during the fall.
But for their pernicious influence,
the outlook would be far more en-
couraging.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13

IS. P. Specht has just opened up
a nice line of boots and shoes for fall
trade. Call and examine goods aud
prices.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1887.
REPUBLICAN
PR I'M ARIES
AND COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Republican voters of Garrett
county are hereby respectfully re-
quested to assemble in Primary Meet
ing, in the several election districts,
where the primaries arelusually held,
on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20. 1887.

at the hour of 8 o'clock P. NJ, for the
purpose of electing FIVE delegates
from each of said districts, to repre-
sent them in County Convention to
be held in the town of Oakland. on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
MONDAY, AUGUST 22d, 1887.

at the hour of l o'clock P. NJ, for the
purpose of electing three delegates to
represent Garrett county in the State
Convention to meet in Baltimore on
the oath day of August. for the pur-
pose of nominating candidate for
Governor, Attorney General and
Comptroller.
The district committees will make
the necessary arrangements for the
holding of the Primaries.
By order of the State Central Com
mittee for Garrett county.
d, CHISHOLM,
Chairman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-13
TRESPASS NOTICE.

All persons are warned not to trespass on
my land, on Pond Run, 80 miles n. E. of
Deer Park, between the farms of T.. r. Brown
prosecute all such offenders to the extent of
the law.
EDWARD A. OSSE.